CPU
Intel 8086
Olivetti M21
Olivetti · 1984
The portable version of Olivetti's M24, and a demonstration that European industrial design was a generation ahead of the American boxes. The M24 family ran a full 16-bit 8086 on a 16-bit bus while IBM was still selling the 8088, so it was genuinely faster than the machine it copied. The M21 folds that into a luggable with a nine-inch amber screen and a detachable keyboard. AT&T sold the same machines in America under its own name.
As catalogued
- Maker
- Olivetti
- CPU
- Intel 8086-8
- Memory
- 128K, 256K, 640K
- Regions
- PAL (Europe)
- Chassis
- portable with a 9-inch amber screen and a detachable keyboard
- OS
- MS-DOS 2.11
